Zahra Hankiri’s Eyeliner offers an eye-opening and surprisingly intimate cultural perspective on the titular cosmetic.
Margaret Renkl’s The Comfort of Crows is a shimmering weekly devotional that praises living beings great and small.
Sohla El-Waylly’s mammoth Start Here is a comprehensive, entry-level cookbook that elevates easy-to-master recipes.
The Dictionary People—which chronicles the unsung heroes who contributed to the Oxford English Dictionary—is sheer delight.
Michael Gross’ delightful cultural history of WASPs illuminates the odd corners of the lives of our nation’s elite—and American history itself.
Pulitzer Prize winner Walt Hickey champions pop culture with a cornucopia of studies, experiments and visuals in You Are What You Watch.
Soup lovers will delight in Shelly Westerhausen Worcel’s cookbook that offers soups, stews, ramen, gazpacho and more for every season.
Seed to Plate, Soil to Sky celebrates the “magic eight” indigenous plants first cultivated in the Americas.
Wistful, understated and urbane, Bartleby and Me is vintage Talese—the exemplary work of a gentleman journalist.
The Cure’s Lol Tolhurst explores the influences and impact of goth music and culture in an immersive new coffee table book.
Breaking Twitter portrays Elon Musk as a modern-day Icarus who has brought confusion, disarray and dysfunction to the social media landscape.
This survey of seven teen shows explores how they broke ground with creativity, heart and hard work, paving the way for the genre’s progressive and diverse oeuvre today.
Keegan-Michael Key and Elle Key’s The History of Sketch Comedy is a wonderful soup-to-nuts compendium of everything sketch.
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